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Presidential Candidate Proposes Automation Agency to Save Jobs: Will It Work?

Presidential Candidate Proposes Automation Agency to Save Jobs: Will It Work?

Image by Office of Bill de Blasio via Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0(https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/deed.en)) On September 5th, presidential candidate and New York City mayor Bill de Blasio published in tech magazine Wired that if elected president, he would “issue a robot tax for corporations displacing humans, and create a federal agency to oversee automation.”

De Blasio is a longshot for even the Democratic nomination—much less the presidency— polling at less than one percent . But his professed concerns about employment losses due to technological innovation and automation aren’t unusual, particularly among those younger than 25. But a new federal agency dedicated to […]

Technology Creates More Jobs Than It Destroys

Technology Creates More Jobs Than It Destroys

Photo by Andy Kelly on Unsplash American presidential candidates Andrew Yang and Bill de Blasio are very concerned about robots taking people’s jobs. Yang has been touting his $1,000 per month "Freedom Dividend" for every American adult since the beginning of his primary run to offset the potential job losses due to automation. De Blasio, on September 5th, published an op-ed published in tech magazine Wired proposing not only a "robot tax" but also the creation of a new federal agency to "oversee" automation and issue permits to businesses who want to increase their automation levels.

Machines will replace humans. […]

Bill de Blasio’s Proposed ‘Robot Tax’ Is Completely Unnecessary, Just Like His Candidacy

Bill de Blasio's Proposed 'Robot Tax' Is Completely Unnecessary, Just Like His Candidacy

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio’s latest attempt to jump-start his inert presidential campaign includes a call for a new federal tax on robots. This unnecessary burden on businesses would expand the federal bureaucracy and fund boondoggle projects, and it is based on a faulty understanding of the relationship between jobs and automation.

In an column published last week by Wired , de Blasio outlines how his "robot tax" (his words) would work. Businesses that "eliminate jobs through increased automation" would be required to pay five years of payroll taxes, up front, for every employee replaced by a robot, de […]

Robots dominating job market is not inevitable: Oxford economist Carl Frey

Robots dominating job market is not inevitable: Oxford economist Carl Frey

The economic historian believes technology is neither the solution to everything nor a dystopian nightmare

A research published six years ago by two Oxford academics, Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael Osborne, seemed to reinforce this ominous prediction about the global economy: Robots are going to take over our jobs. For, it warned that “about 47% of total US employment is at risk” due to computerisation. Carl, this year, expanded the ideas of the research in a book, which is portentously titled, The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation .

Contrary to what it seems, […]

Is de Blasio’s “robot tax” a good idea?

Is de Blasio’s “robot tax” a good idea?

Phonlamai Photo/Shutterstock New York City Mayor (and Democratic presidential primary candidate) Bill de Blasio has a plan to combat the effects of workplace automation, and while it’s not as inspiringly named as Andrew Yang’s $1,000 monthly ”Freedom Dividend,” the proposal is aimed at the same issue that Yang has built his campaign around: the loss of jobs due to automation.

Late last week, in an op-ed in the tech magazine Wired , de Blasio unveiled a “robot tax” plan to protect workers. It’s one of just a few major policy proposals in his platform, which includes a workers’ bill of […]

Automation and AI: how it will actually affect the workplace

Automation and AI: how it will actually affect the workplace

Unexpected item in bagging area: how is automation affecting the labour market? Image edited from Shutterstock Is there any consensus on the impact of automation and artificial intelligence on our working lives? Will society benefit or suffer? How will HR play its part in reshaping the workforce? Adam McCulloch examines the impact on jobs and people management.

A blasé optimism pervades the burgeoning automation revolution. More jobs, not fewer, will be the result and a happier workforce, freed from drudgery, will be able to pursue more meaningful activities – whatever those may be. But many employees will inevitably be […]

Do we need a robot tax?

Do we need a robot tax?

Industrial revolutions throughout history play out like this: repetitive and mundane jobs are automated by new technology, livelihoods evaporate, skills become obsolete, and in the process humans are compelled to retrain and find new work. Whether it’s textile workers or checkout assistants, lamplighters or petrol-pump attendants, automation shows little mercy.

In the early-19th century, during the first industrial revolution, traditional jobs dried up, the labour share of income fell, while corporate profits surged, and the gap between the wages of the rich and poor skyrocketed. Today, we could be doing the time warp again as the third and fourth industrial […]

The evolution of US manufacturing

The evolution of US manufacturing

Amanda Del Buono is joined by Neil Ridley, Georgetown University , Center on Education and the Workforce, state initiative director, to discuss the center’s recent "The Way We Were" report, which analyzes the industry from the 1940s through today and how the workforce has been impacted.

Read the report here: http://bit.ly/2lYpVNk Transcript

Amanda Del Buono: Hello and welcome back to Manufacturing Tomorrow’s Workforce, I’m Amanda Del Buono. Today, I’m joined by Neil Ridley state initiative director of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and Workforce. In our interview, Neil shares some great insights to expand on a new report the university […]

Tomorrow’s jobs: 7 future roles that will exist in the age of automation

Tomorrow’s jobs: 7 future roles that will exist in the age of automation

Forget Skynet gaining sentience and starting a nuclear apocalypse aimed at humanity. The real fear a lot of folks have about artificial intelligence, robots and other automated processes is what it means for all of our jobs. According to a famous Oxford University study , around 47% of currently existing jobs could potentially be automated away within the next 15 years. Terrifying, right?

But there’s good news as well. While it’s inarguable that a certain number of jobs will vanish in the wake of automation, lots of new jobs are going to be created by technology as well. Jobs like […]

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10:28 am September 2, 2019 at 10:28 am Log in to Reply That’s what we get when Trump’s policies creates more jobs than we have workers. See under Obama we had millions of people who couldn’t find a job and some 42 million had to rely on food stamps and other services.The choice is clear if you want to return to massive unemployment then voting Democrat is the way to go. But if you want full employment and good jobs then you vote Republican.One more thing raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour will only increase […]